WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF – (Im) Stranded – 7” – Vinyl [DEC 5]

7” – Limited Edition Black Vinyl. CTMF cover The Saints! Featuring Nurse Julie on lead vocals! limited edition of 300 copies!

Having bought (Im) Stranded, and seen The Saints supporting The Jam in 1977, Billy had an inkling it might be a grand wheeze to cover a couple of their tunes at some juncture in the near future. Fast forward to 2025. Whilst celebrating their silver wedding anniversary over tiffin, Billy suggested to the Mrs, maybe we should do a cover of them there Saints tracks. Mrs Childish (she of bass to CTMF) nodded slightly, (Im) Standed, and have a bash at that Untitled. A recording day was duly booked with Jim Riley‘s famed Ranscombe Studios (A semi-professional outfit situated on the stinking banks of The River Medway). The Childishes, accompanied by The Wolf, (he of The Skins), set up their old crap in a corner, did a couple of quick run throughs – so as to have some inkling of how the stupid tracks went – and Jim‘s hairy mitt (imagine a werewolfs hand in a 60s Hammer Horror movie) pressed the record button and hey-presto! You now have that very 45 blasting in your lug ‘oles.

N.B. It being wisely decided that a female vocal would bring a fresh, glistening inflection to these two charmers Mrs Childish takes lead vocal duties with Billy demoted to mumbling along on backing vocals. So there!

Tracklist:

A: (Im) Stranded

B: Untitled